The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Intuitive Surgical Inc (NASDAQ: ISRG)

Intuitive Surgical Inc (NASDAQ:ISRG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.52M but it saw 1191249 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 169.39B USD, the company’s current market price of $476.69 came falling about -1.05 while comparing to the previous closing price of $481.73. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $493.97 and as low as $254.85. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $468.458 while lowest mark touched by it was $480.32.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) gives us an average price of $479.37, while its current price level is -3.50% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 87.05% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $457.40 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $394.92. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.07% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.82%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 53.55 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Redburn Atlantic which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on August 02, 2024, recommending a price target of between $380 and $510 for it. Goldman issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $500.

Over the week, ISRG’s stock price is moving -1.14% down while it is 6.48% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 41.30% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 54.93%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in October, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.64 while estimate for next year EPS is 6.65. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.18B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $8.09B and seeing the company making $9.38B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Intuitive Surgical Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 355.35M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 14.23% and return on equity (ROE) at 15.75%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 81.85 while having a 62.37 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.39. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 11.52 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 22.37. Its return on asset (ROA) is 13.71% on average.